Call for Papers
Physiotherapy Canada Special Series
Global Health, Disability, and Rehabilitation: Implications for Physiotherapy
Guest Editors: Stephanie A. Nixon, PhD, PT; Matthew Hunt, PhD, PT
Stephanie A. Nixon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, and Director of the International Centre for Disability and Rehabilitation in Canada. Matthew Hunt is an Assistant Professor at the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, and Researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation.
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which came into force in 2008, and the World Report on Disability, released by the World Bank and the World Health Organization in 2011, have jointly served to focus long-overdue global attention on the historically marginalized issue of disability. To contribute new knowledge to this movement, over the next two years Physiotherapy Canada will be running a special series of articles considering aspects of global health, disability, and rehabilitation and their implications for physiotherapy. We are interested in global health as it relates to health care and the wider determinants of health in low- or middle-income countries (LMIC) and within marginalized communities in high-income countries (HIC). We are also interested in critical perspectives on global health that explicitly engage with issues of power, equity, and oppression. Similarly, we are interested in disability as defined from a range of standpoints including but not limited to biomedical definitions as well as perspectives informed by critical disability studies. Under the heading rehabilitation, we welcome multiple approaches including but not limited to clinical care and community-based rehabilitation. In all cases, implications for the field of physiotherapy must be clearly articulated.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
· Research on physiotherapy with people with disabilities in LMIC or marginalized communities in HIC
· Disparities in disability prevalence and/or access to rehabilitation within LMIC, between LMIC and HIC, or within marginalized communities in HIC
· The role of transnational or supranational forces (e.g., extractive industries, neoliberal globalization, digital technologies, climate change) in disability and/or rehabilitation
· Concerns of power, privilege, and/or hegemony as they relate to disability and rehabilitation
· International dimensions of education related to disability and/or rehabilitation (e.g., for rehabilitation providers trained in HIC who seek to work in LMIC, physiotherapy curriculum development in LMIC)
· Human rights and their role in relation to disability and/or rehabilitation
· The migration of rehabilitation health human resources
· Other research related to disability and/or rehabilitation in a global health context
Physiotherapy Canada is currently seeking submissions in English and in French related to these or other pertinent topics for global health, disability, and rehabilitation. Qualitative or quantitative empirical studies are preferred, but high-quality commentaries or reviews (e.g., scoping, systematic) will also be considered. High-quality submissions from authors in LMIC or from authors with disabilities are encouraged.
Submissions are requested now and throughout 2014, for publication in 2014–2016.
All submissions must follow the journal’s author guidelines and must be submitted to our online peer-review system, PRESTO. You can find the guidelines here or on the “For Authors and Reviewers” page at www.utpjournals.com/ptc. To submit to PRESTO, please click here or visit physio.presto.utpjournals.com/jmanager/users/login.
If you have questions about the relevance of a project you are working on or require more detail, please contact Stephanie Nixon - [log in to unmask] or +1 (416) 946-3232.
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